Does fear of crime vary significantly between urban neighbourhoods in Canada?
Table 2 provides an estimate of the extent to which fear of crime varied across Canadian urban neighbourhoods. This model is often referred to as the ‘empty’ model since it contains no explanatory variables, but is intended to estimate the proportion of total variation in fear of crime that was related to differences between neighbourhoods rather than differences between the individuals residing in those neighbourhoods (see ‘Intraclass correlation coefficients’ in the Multilevel analysis portion of the Methodology section).
